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GP Eingelangt am 05/08/14 Council of the EuropeanE Union Brussels, 5 August 2014 12365/14 INST 375 COVER NOTE from: Ms Metka IPAVIC, Deputy Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the European Union received on: 1 August 2014 to: Mr Uwe CORSEPIUS, Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union Subject: Nomination of Ms Tanja FAJON, Mr Karl ERJAVEC and Ms Alenka BRATUŠEK as Members of the European Commission Delegations will find attached a letter from Ms Metka IPAVIC, Deputy Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the European Union on the above subject. =============== 12365/14 KS/lo 1 DRI EN www.parlament.gv.at ANNEX 12365/14 KS/lo 2 ANNEX DRI EN www.parlament.gv.at 12365/14 KS/lo 3 ANNEX DRI EN www.parlament.gv.at 12365/14 KS/lo 4 ANNEX DRI EN www.parlament.gv.at Curriculum Vitae Tanja FAJON Tanja Fajon (born on 9 May 1971 in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chair and Member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D) and a Vice-Chair Woman of Social Democrats of Slovenia (SD). Tanja Fajon graduated in journalism at the University of Ljubljana (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences). She also holds a Master Degree in International Politics from the College of Interdisciplinary Studies in Paris. She worked as a journalist for Radio Glas Ljubljana (1991 and 1995), daily newspaper Republika (1993) and public broadcaster Radio Television Slovenia (1995-2009) and has been mainly engaged with foreign and European politics. In 2001, she became a journalist correspondent for Radio Television Slovenia in Brussels and kept this foreign post for almost 8 years. Her main focus were the accession negotiations of Slovenia towards the European Union (EU), the later membership of the country and all EU policies related issues. She was also a reporter for American network CNN (1995-2001). As a journalist, she developed a wide range of professional skills in covering various issues – from politics, to economy and business – in different EU states, particularly in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and France. Mrs Fajon is also the author of several documentaries, among them Rise of the extreme right in Europe, Human tragedies at the doorstep of Europe and Constitution of the European Union. Mrs Fajon was for the first time elected to the European parliament in 2009. In the past term she was a full Member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) as well as Special Committee on Organized Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering (CRIM) where she acted between March 2012 and October 2013 as a coordinator and S&D Group's spokesperson. She was also a substitute Member in the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET). 12365/14 KS/lo 5 ANNEX DRI EN www.parlament.gv.at Mrs Fajon has been actively involved in the politics of the Western Balkans, as a substitute Member of the Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo and as the European Parliament's rapporteur on visa liberalization for the Western Balkans. Mrs Fajon made an important contribution to the life of citizens of the Western Balkans countries as they can finally travel freely to the European Union countries. In 2010 she received an honorary doctorate from the American University in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Mrs Fajon was a Vice Chair-Woman of the European Parliament delegation with Croatia until Croatia's membership in the EU and then served as a full Member of the EU - USA delegation. She was also a Vice Chair-Woman of the European Parliament's Intergroup on Media, responsible for monitoring press freedom in Europe. As of 9 January 2014 Mrs Fajon also serves as a European Parliament's rapporteur on visa liberalization for the Republic of Moldova. On 25 May 2014 she was re-elected as a Member of the European Parliament in the European Elections for her second term. Enjoying wide support among Slovenian citizens, Mrs Fajon became the first women in the Slovenian history who won her mandate with preferential votes. In June 2014 she was elected Vice President of S&D Group in the European Parliament. She again serves as a full Member of LIBE Committee as well as the Delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo and as a Substitute Member of AFET Committee and the Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. Tanja Fajon speaks English, French, German and Serbo-Croatian. Tanja Fajon is married to a German journalist Veit-Ulrich Braun. _______________ 12365/14 KS/lo 6 ANNEX DRI EN www.parlament.gv.at Curriculum Vitae Karl Viktor ERJAVEC Born on 21 June 1960 in Aiseau, Belgium. Until he was 11 years old, he lived and attended schools in Belgium. He then moved to Kranj, Slovenia, where he attended Kranj Grammar School and graduated from Ljubljana Law School in 1985. Until 1990, he worked in the private sector. In 1990, he became a member of the Executive Council of Kranj City Council as a councillor for general and legal affairs. Between 1995 and 2000, he was a director of the specialist service of the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia and Head of the Cabinet of the Human Rights Ombudsman. He participated at various international conferences on the field of human rights. Between 2001 and 2004, he was appointed as State Secretary for Judicial Administration at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Slovenia. He worked intensively on the harmonisation of the national judicial system as well as with the legal system of the European Union (acquis). He actively participated at the Council of Ministers for Justice and Internal Affairs of the European Union. In 2004, he was appointed as minister for defence of the Republic of Slovenia. He held that appointment until 2008. In 2006, he chaired a NATO ministerial meeting in Portorož, Slovenia. In the first half of 2008, when Slovenia held the EU Presidency, he was chairing the meeting of the EU defence ministers and, together with the European Commission, he was leading European defence policies. He attended several ministerial meeting across the world, and he visited all the military missions in which Slovenian Army members were participating, from Afghanistan to Iraq. 12365/14 KS/lo 7 ANNEX DRI EN www.parlament.gv.at As a minister for defence, he devoted special attention for Western Balkans, because Slovenian Armed Forces were participating in Operation ALTHEA in Bosnia and Hercegovina and KFOR in Kosovo. In April 2008, he participated at the NATO Summit in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of 2008, Karl Erjavec became Minister for the Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia. He was also the negotiation at the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen in December 2009, and he presided over the Alpine Convention. He also led and successfully concluded Slovenia’s negotiations for accession to OECD on the field of environment. In February 2012, he was appointed as Vice President of the Government of Slovenia and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia. As the Slovenian minister for foreign affairs, he attended UN General Assembly Sessions in New York, the NATO Summit in Chicago in 2013, and participated at the OECD ministerial meeting as its vice-chairman in 2014. One of his most important priorities as a minister of foreign affairs was solving the open questions between Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia. In connection with the arbitration agreement regarding the border with Croatia, he appeared before the Court of Arbitration in The Hague. A significant obstacle to the entry of Croatia into the EU was a dispute in connection with the Ljubljanska Banka, which was successfully resolved with a compromise solution in the form of a memorandum. As Minister for Foreign Affairs, he paid particular attention to the Western Balkans. His letter regarding aspects of possible solutions for Bosnia and Herzegovina was very well-received. He actively supported the Western Balkan aspirations to join Euro-Atlantic structures. In the context of these efforts, the Brdo process has played an important role, as has a number of bilateral meetings that he has had with all the ministers of the Western Balkans. He also hosted two Bled Strategic Forums, at which the Western Balkans were among the most central discussion topics. In March 2014, Karl Erjavec hosted an international seminar on mediation in the Mediterranean, at which the experience of peaceful settlement of disputes in the Western Balkans and the wider Mediterranean region was further discussed. 12365/14 KS/lo 8 ANNEX DRI EN www.parlament.gv.at Since 2005, he has been the president of the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS). In this role, he has been a cabinet member of various Slovenian governments, both centre-left and centre-right. He is married and has two daughters; they live in Naklo, Slovenia. He speaks French, English, Croatian/Serbian and German. He is the author of numerous articles on the protection of fundamental human rights, on the functioning of the judicial system, and security issues. He often lectures at professional seminars, conferences, consultations, meetings, forums, domestically and internationally. _______________ 12365/14 KS/lo 9 ANNEX DRI EN www.parlament.gv.at Curriculum Vitae Alenka BRATUŠEK Alenka Bratušek was elected Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia on 27 February 2013 and thus became the first woman at the top of the executive branch of power in the history of independent Slovenia. In April 2014, she also took over the Ministry of Health.
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